Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops

A revised version of this report has been issued to correct inaccuracies in active substance application weight data that were overestimated in the original report. This issue only affects certain herbicide active substances in relation to quantity applied. Please do not use the original version of this report as this has now been replaced by the revised 2020 report: Pesticide usage in Scotland 2016: soft fruit crops – revised 2020.

This publication presents information from a survey of pesticide use on soft fruit crops grown in Scotland during 2016.


Table 23: Raspberry herbicide active substances - 2016

Area (ha), Quantity (kg) and percentage of crop treated

Herbicides Non-protected raspberry Protected raspberry All raspberry
(Ha) (%) (Kg) (Ha) (%) (Kg) (Ha) (%) (Kg)
Carfentrazone-ethyl 37 28 1 78 39 4 115 35 5
Diquat 122 81 61 79 40 29 201 56 90
Fluazifop-P-butyl 34 26 4 0 0 0 34 10 4
Glyphosate 0 0 0 15 8 27 15 5 27
Isoxaben 79 61 16 33 16 8 112 34 24
Lenacil 1 1 1 4 2 10 5 2 11
Napropamide 29 22 66 64 32 203 94 28 269
Pendimethalin 68 52 89 0 0 0 68 21 89
Propyzamide 44 34 68 32 16 51 76 23 118
All herbicides 414 81 306 305 67 332 719 72 638
Area grown 131 199 329

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